Tales of the Fantastic - An Exploration of the Supernatural by Gautier and Others
Gautier, Theophile; de Nerval, Gerard; Apollinaire, Guillaume
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Tales of the Fantastic
An Exploration of the Supernatural by Gautier and Others
By Théophile Gautier, Gerard De Nerval and Guillaume Apollinaire
Translated by Patricia Roseberry
Brand New. Paperback. Published by Broadwater House, 2000. Approx 19cm H x 12cm W. 230pp.
"These stories, in the tradition of Nodier, Hoffman and Poe, contain the most daring of fantasies dressed in the most alluring of disguises. Here is rich food for the imagination to which the prose of three of France's greatest poets, Gautier, Nerval and Apollinaire, brings refinement and a spice of humour.
The Subject matter of this collection of contes fantastiques includes vampirism, the seduction of virginal youth, the sexual awakening of a newly-ordained priest and a whiff of necrophilia from Gautier. Nerval brings us an entertainment from seventeenth-century Paris with sinister undercurrents, and Apollinaire contributes a surrealist gem of a story.
Readers will be pleasurably alarmed."
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